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Avatar the Movie
We have seen Avatar twice, in 3D both times. Now, we don’t usually go to theatres to see movies. We prefer to see them on DVD in the comfort of our own home. But, having seen the trailers for Avatar and an HBO “behind the scenes” special on the movies writer and director, James Cameron, we thought it might be worthwhile to go see this 2 hour and 40 minute film. Continue reading »
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Dr. Richard Bartlett is a wild man!
Of course, I mean that in a good way. Meeting Richard and being introduced to Matrix Energetics was one of those experiences after which life has no longer been the same!
In over 30 years of attending and leading personal development and transformational trainings and events, I have NEVER experienced anything quite like Richard’s teaching style. Nor have I experienced anything remotely like Matrix Energetics, which Richard brought into the world a few years ago. On stage Richard expresses what I recognized immediately as "crazy wisdom", as it’s called in the Sufi tradition. In the shamanic tradition he is coyote medicine personified. And it works.
The only thing that is remotely in the same ball park with Matrix Energetics is when I learned and later taught firewalking and other breakthrough, experiential events at the Firewalk Institute for Research and Education (F.I.R.E.) in the high Sierras with Tolly Burkan over ten years ago.
I was first exposed to Matrix when our friend Jim Running Wolf returned from a Matrix workshop in April and began "working" on me and Layne. I had recently injured my back and the pain was not going away. Jim did some Matrix with me and the pain disappeared in less than five minutes, never to return.
Then Jim asked if I would like for him to show me what he learned. He didn’t need to ask twice!
I had the same immediate impression with Matrix that I had over thirty years ago when I had my first Rebirthing Breathwork experience with Sondra Ray at Leonard Orr’s Theta Seminars in San Francisco. And that impression was a profound sense that I already know this work, I know how to do this, I just need someone to show me and remind me. Following my Breathwork training I enjoyed a long and amazing career practicing and teaching Breathwork with many thousands of people.
Anyway, I began practicing the Matrix that Jim was showing me with him and Layne, then eventually others, including willing clients. It came as naturally and easily as breathing.
I went to my first Matrix Levels 1 & 2 workshop in L.A. in June, which is where I met Richard. It was life changing in much the same way as Breathwork and Firewalking, only different. When I returned home I began working with clients long distance, over the phone, and they were experiencing positive results.
In the late ’80′s Layne and I learned a variety of "energy psychology" procedures and techniques that we have been using ever since, along with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). And while all of these tools have been extremely effective and transformed our work at the time, Matrix Energetics is something of an entirely different order – yet is easily integrated with those modalities.
Layne and I returned a week ago from the Matrix Energetics Levels 1, 2 & 3 workshops in Denver. I deepened my experience with Matrix during this review of Levels 1 & 2 and went even deeper in Level 3. Now, Layne and I are seeing all the ways we can incorporate Matrix Energetics with our relationship work to make it even easier and more effective.
For awhile now we have been asking for an even easier, faster and more elegant way of working with our clients and students that would produce miraculous results. Enter Matrix Energetics!
We will be using Matrix Energetics in our Relationship Savvy Group Coaching Programs starting in September. We are already using it with clients on the phone and in person. If you are interested to know more about Relationship Savvy, there are two programs, Relationship Savvy 1 starts September 9 and Relationship Savvy 2 starts September 3. Each one is limited to only 12 participants.
Here is a six minute video introduction to Dr. Bartlett and Matrix Energetics that you might enjoy. You should be sitting down when you watch this!
Please leave us a comment and let us know what you think or any questions you may have.
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This talk by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor is amazing, inspiring and enlightening. If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s well worth the 20 minutes to watch. She describes in the most passionate, beautiful and poetic terms the process of observing herself have a stroke from which it took her eight years to recover.
Also, this is from a site called TED which is filled with videos of presentations given by thought leaders from many different fields. And it’s all free! This is a site well worth bookmarking and visiting frequently.
Enjoy and let us know what you think . . .
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When I was leading seminars and workshops at the beginning of my career in the mid ’70′s I would frequently ask participants to indicate by a show of hands how many were familiar with the notion that our thoughts are creative. Usually no one would raise their hands. And if there were hands raised, they were very few.
Fortunately, many more people have been exposed to that idea simply due to the proliferation of books, audio programs, seminars and workshops that teach that idea. The latest to come along and reach extremely wide exposure is the movie The Secret. Recently Oprah did two shows on the movie and had some of the "stars" of the movie on her show. I read that these two shows had the most viewers of any of her broadcasts.
What The Secret teaches is the very basic principle that our thoughts are creative. That is, what we think about, visualize and dwell upon will come to us through the Law of Attraction.
That’s the theory, anyway.
In practice it isn’t quite that simple. If it was many more of us would be healthy, beautiful, handsome, slim, loved and wealthy – and world peace would have long ago broken out! You see, there is some very crucial information missing from The Secret.
Before I tell you what that is, let me share a little of my background and why I have the authority to speak about this.
I was raised in the Deep South and grew up either poor or lower middle class, depending on my father’s business fortunes. And I use the term "fortunes" loosely. I learned little or nothing about success principles or prosperity or how to handle money, much less make any.
At one point when I lived in San Francisco, after having graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute, I was married with an infant son. And for awhile we were on welfare and Food Stamps. It was a very difficult time, to say the least. And what was worse, I had no idea how I got there or how to get out.
Fast forward a few years. I was divorced and on unemployment. I had a lot of time on my hands and I got involved in a spiritual/personal development/transformational community. There I learned a set of practices that radically changed my life and my fortunes and gave me the career that I have enjoyed for over 30 years.
I had known for some time that "thought is creative". I had been on a spiritual path for years and had studied the Seth Material which is all about creative thought. But I had not a clue about the practical application of that idea — until I came into the company of these people.
What I learned was that it was not my conscious thoughts that are creative. It was my subconscious beliefs, feelings and attitudes that had been creating my experience of myself, life and relationships. And until I learned what those are and, most importantly, learn tools and techniques for changing them at the subconscious level, nothing in my outer world would change one iota.
So, I got busy working with processes to surface my deep, subconscious beliefs and practicing techniques to change them at the subconscious level. And in due time, my experience of myself and my life began to change in very dramatic and powerful ways.
I learned that it is the content of our subconscious mind, the material below the threshold of conscious awareness, which generates a vibratory frequency that draws to us experiences that are in harmony with those vibrations.
Our deep subconscious beliefs, feelings and attitudes are formed in our infancy, early childhood and adolescence and then validated as real in our adult experience. The content of our subconscious minds is the real creative machinery of our lives and relationships.
Out of my intense desire for my life to be different and with the application of some very specific tools and techniques, I transformed myself and my life from poverty and hopelessness with very few prospects for success, to one of high self esteem, personal power, contribution and financial and relationship success.
There was nothing in my past or my deep inner mind that prepared me for who I have become and the life I have lived. I have since had the opportunity to travel around the world teaching and learning and having experiences for which my "old mind" was in no way prepared.
It’s a great thing that The Secret is introducing millions of people to a very important metaphysical theory and will hopefully lead them to learn more. There will inevitably be those who will meet with disappointment, discouragement and misunderstanding when things don’t turn out as they imagine they will based on what they learned in The Secret. And there will be those who will dismiss the book and its premise out of hand.
A friend and colleague of mine has written what I think is the best book on the subject and I highly recommend it. It is called Vibrational Harmony – Why We Don’t Get What We Want and How We Can, by Beverly Nadler. This wonderful book explains the workings of your amazing mind – conscious, subconscious and Superconscious – so that you can tune into your intuition, use your power of "free will" and overcome your mind’s resistance to change. Vibrational Harmony also teaches you the additional Universal and Mental Laws involved, that The Secret doesn’t tell you.
Inner transformation is both an art and a science. And I promise you that if you have the persistence, patience, fortitude and determination, stepping onto this path can change you forever — for the better!
What are your thoughts about the movie The Secret?
